“Russian roulette”: 5 popular drugs that can do more harm than good

Antibiotics

Although by law pharmacies are required to sell antibiotics strictly on prescription, bypassing 2-3 addresses, it is quite possible to find loyal pharmacists who will sell you the drug. In addition, they will often carefully offer in parallel with it funds “for microflora”, because they know what side effects the intake of these funds can turn into. The very name “antibiotics” contains the meaning of their action: “against life”.

They destroy the bacteria that are in the body, pathogenic at best, but most often – everything, including your own, that makes up the microbiome. Abdominal pain, intestinal upset, nausea, rash, thrush, headache, and photosensitivity – this is not a complete list of the effects of self-medication with drugs. And if they are children, there can be even more dangerous consequences.

The problem is that many people take antibiotics “for every sneeze” when they are not needed at all. And thus create problems for themselves due to side effects.